A study of different policy options suggests that industrialized and developing countries can delay cutting emissions for a decade or more and still stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at an oft-cited target--double the value seen before the Industrial Revolution.

The United States resisted calls to make a specific commitment on the issue of global warming at an international meeting last week in Geneva, Switzerland, and now finds itself the only wealthy Western nation that has not agreed to stabilize its emissions of carbon dioxide by the turn of the century.

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